Scott Rush ’83 is embarking upon a second career, as a Lutheran minister.
Author: Rebecca Docter
Read the road taken by Michelle Fragola Hoffman ’92, a consultant who became a stay-at-home mom and is now a family therapist.
A tribute to Professor John Ross Carter, who inspired students in the philosophy and religion department and directed Chapel House. He died at the age of 81.
Step inside biology professor Bineyam Taye’s spring virtual classroom and learn his understanding of the novel coronavirus’s epidemiology.
For two alumni, a decline in face-to-face interaction means changing business models.
Photo by Mark DiOrio When Ron Fogarty ’95 and Brad Dexter ’96 heard the news that Coach Terry Slater had died of a stroke on Dec. 5, 1991, they’d just returned to Hamilton from an away game. Fogarty and Dexter came to the University in part to be mentored by “The General,” who’d coached Colgate to the national championship game the previous year. “It was devastating,” Dexter says. “We weren’t prepared for it.” But, in the face of grief, the Raiders pulled themselves up to achieve greatness: Under a new coach, Don Vaughan, the team reached the semifinals. Fogarty and…
Interposed between criminal law and psychiatry are forensic psychiatrists, doctors who assess whether defendants are currently mentally competent to stand trial. Some of their work involves consulting on legal insanity cases, in which the forensic psychiatrist performs a retrospective evaluation to decide, based on long-established state and federal laws, whether the defendant was so impaired by mental illness at the time of the act that the jury or judge should find them not criminally responsible. Psychiatric evaluations can sway the outcome of a case — and the life of the person on trial. “You want the person to have a…
Manicures have been a form of self-care since Ancient Babylon, and the at-home bottle of polish came on the scene in the 1940s. The process of the do-it-yourself manicure hasn’t changed much since then — but it will, if Sarah Gibson Tuttle ’02 has anything to do with it. Tuttle saw a gap in the nail market while getting a blowout in Los Angeles at the luxury hair salon Drybar. She wanted a new type of neighborhood nail salon, similar in service quality to the trendy styling business. With a background in finance and an entrepreneurial spirit, she started Olive…
Illustration by Philip Harris You might be reading this with your trusty companion at your feet. If you wrote a story about her, what would it say? Throughout history, authors have written narratives that feature — or allude to — the dogs at their side. With the literary anthology In Dogs We Trust (The University of South Carolina Press, 2019), Jeffrey Makala ’94, a special collections librarian and archivist at Furman University, aims to bring those lesser-known stories and poems to a wider audience. Five years ago, Makala’s eventual co-editor, Jacob F. Rivers III, had just compiled a volume of…
As CEO of Employment Horizons, Matthew Putts ’07 helps provide job training and placement for people with disabilities.